Research

  • Research Associate, MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (Sept. 2018 - Current)

  • Team on Climate Adaptation Observations – Global Climate Observing System, WMO (2019)

  • Research Associate - Urban Risk Lab, MIT (March 2017 – July 2018)

  • Research Assistant – Displacement Research Action Network, MIT DUSP (Sept. 2016 – June 2018)

  • Research Assistant - Blum Center for Developing Economies, #GlobalPOV project (August 2013 - June 2014)

  • Research Assistant (URAP) - UC Berkeley Dept. of Sociology (September 2013 - December 2014)

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant, “Starter Communities,” MIT Department of Architecture (IAP 2019)

  • Teaching Assistant, “Seeing the City Afresh”, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (Spring 2018)

  • Teaching and Research Assistant - Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, MIT (January 2018 Workshop in Lima, Peru)

Professional

  • Co-founder, Executive Director - Buy-In (Current)

  • Planner - Nitsch Engineering (Feb. 2020 - Current)

  • Special Projects Manager - Rebuilding Alliance (Nov. 2014 - Oct. 2015)

Internships

  • Research Associate – Niti Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal (September 2018)

  • Spatial Analysis / GIS Intern - Burro Brand LLC, Koforidua, Ghana (August 2018)

  • Research Associate - Niti Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal (August 2017)

  • Documentation and Monitoring Intern - Lumanti, Support Group for Shelter, Kathmandu, Nepal (January 2017)

  • Housing Rights Research and Documentary Intern – Causa Justa/Just Cause, Oakland (February 2014 – June 2014)

Volunteer Work & Additional Experience

  • Chair, Climigration Network Learning Community (January 2020 - Current)

  • Co-Chair, Climigration & Managed Retreat Working Group, American Society of Adaptation Professionals (2018-2019).

  • Agenda Setter, Climigration Network (2018-2019).

  • Forgotten Children International Urban Design Workshop - Engineering Ministries International, Uganda (March 2020)

  • RDG Design Residency, “Design Atlas for Climate Resilience.” (2018)

  • [IN]City Summer Institute – UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design (Summer 2014)

  • Director of Internal Relations, Programming and Education – Olive Tree Initiative, Berkeley (2012-2013)

  • Art for Social Change Class Facilitator - Democratic Education at Cal (DeCal) (Aug. 2012 - June 2014)

Awards, Achievements and Honors

  • Guest co-editor for May 2018 Issue of FrankNews.us on Urban Planning

  • Architect Magazine Studio Prize 2017 Winner (Urbanism After Extraction)

  • UC Berkeley Dean’s Honors: top 4% of the Letters and Science students for that Semester. Honors to 12/2012, 05/13, 12/13, 5/14

  • High Honors from UC Berkeley Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major Department on Undergraduate Thesis Work

Travel Grants

  • MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) India - Independent Research Travel Grant for research in Kathmandu, Nepal - January 2017

  • Aga Khan Center for Islamic Architecture at MIT – Aga Khan Summer Travel Fellowship – Independent Research in Beirut, Lebanon – June 2017

  • MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) India – Independent Research Travel Grant for research in Kathmandu, Nepal - August 2017

  • MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) Africa – Funded Internship in Koforidua, Ghana – August 2018

  • MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) India – Independent Research Travel Grant for research in Kathmandu, Nepal – September 2018